Portal:Old Norse literature
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Literature originally written in Old Norse, as well as books about Old Norse literature. For information about the Old Norse language, see Portal:Scandinavian languages.
General works[edit]
- "Old Norse Literature", chapter 1 of History of the Literature of the Scandinavian North (1884) by F. Winkel Horn, translated by Rasmus B. Anderson
Literary works[edit]
- Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson, a collection of tales about the Norwegian kings, beginning with the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings.
- The Laxdaela Saga, one of the Icelanders' sagas.
- Poetic Edda, a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius.
- Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, an Icelandic manual of poetics which contains many stories from Norse mythology.
- The Saga of King Olaf Tryggwason, a king's saga which relates the life of king Olaf I of Norway.
- The Story of the Volsungs, a legendary saga of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan.